Skaneateles Artisans Events
First Friday Art Night Skaneateles
You are Invited
Skaneateles Artisans is proud to welcome four prestigious artist from the Roycrofters At large Association. The works of Kristine Baker, Lea Corey, Howard Lehning and Laura Wilder will be on display for the month of August.
The opening reception will be on Friday August 6th from 6 to 9 pm, with Live Music by Kate and Paul : www.kateandpaulband.com
Refreshments will be served
Kristine Baker
She enjoys both fashion and color. Kristine Baker combines both in her
hand painted designs, using fiber-reactive dyes and the ancient medium of silk;
each piece is unique and handcrafted by Ms. Baker from start to finish.
Painting on silk for over twenty years, Ms Baker has sold internationally and
has been awarded the Roycroft Renaissance Artisan status for the last three
years. Her work is currently carried by a Rochester, New York gallery and four
museum stores.
Lea Corey
“I just gotta bead….”
One cannot grow up in Corning, N.Y. and not have at least a small fascination with the many possibilities of glass as an artistic medium. Combine that fascination with a mother and grandmother who embroidered, tatted, quilted, smocked, and needle pointed. Needless to say, I was strongly encouraged to sew! My artistic journey has evolved from that humble beginning beyond anything my mentors had ever envisioned.
This has been a 30-year evolution of what I consider a very unique style. Textural beadwork in jewelry has dovetailed into three-dimensional sculpture, both large and small. My miniature work for dollhouses, baskets, vessels, and wearable’s have taken the simple glass bead on a journey through mixed media, loom work, and a variety of free hand stitching techniques.
I received my Roycroft Mark in 2005 and attained the level of Master Craftsman in 2009 for my artistry in beads.
Every day I look forward to some time in my studio………bead therapy!
Howard Lehning
Howard Lehning attended Carnegie-Mellon University / architecture, and Rochester Institute of Technology / Photography and Design. Was engaged as a professional draftsman and designer for 20 years. Was employed as Senior Designer for the Kittinger Furniture Company in Buffalo, NY and for the Baker Furniture Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan. I have been involved with the Colonial Williamsburg Furniture Reproduction Program, and the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island.
A woodworker and inveterate tinkerer all my life, in 1983 I started HEARTWOOD, a small woodworking shop in East Aurora, NY. Was accepted as a Roycroft Artisan in 1984.
Continued my shop commission work while otherwise gainfully employed.
In 1992 I reorganized as HR LEHNING FINE FURNITURE & TIMEPIECES and started full-time as furniture maker. I have been engaged for 17 years producing commission work as well as developing my own product line of furniture, clocks, and small wood items. Part of my business has been to design and build high-end kitchen installations, and several residential libraries. I have also produced furniture reproductions for Graycliff, the Darwin and Isabella Martin summer home in Derby, NY that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I have trained three apprentices, one of whom has started his own cabinet business. My current apprentice is also an Air Force Reservist.
I currently sit on the Board of Directors of the Roycrofters-at-Large Association, the parent Not-For-Profit organization that administers for the Roycroft Artisans. At present there are 60 Roycroft Artisans and Master Artisans. We produce a summer festival and winter craft shows each year, as well as an educational lecture series, scholarship program, and the renowned Roycroft Chamber Music Festival.
Laura Wilder
For 13 years, Laura Wilder has been a Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan specializing in vintage-style block prints. She has won many awards for her work, which she exhibits at shows, in over 20 galleries and shops nationwide. Laura’s artwork centers on the themes of trees, sunlight and slowing down to appreciate the small, simple things in life.
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Current Exhibit" Runs through July 31, 2010
Skaneateles ARTisans, 11 Fennell Street, Skaneateles, NY will feature the art of Steven Fland and Ed Levine during the month of July. The opening reception is Friday, July 2nd from 6 until 9 PM.
Both artists are well known throughout the area and beyond. Steven is a sculptor of wildlife with pieces ranging in size from a hummingbird to a hippo and a table featuring a kingfisher. Ed is a watercolorist, known for his landscapes, still life paintings and has recently finished a commission for the Skaneateles Antique Boat Show.
In honor of this event, there will be refreshments provided by the blue Danube www.bluedanubegourmet.com and live music by E.S.P Jazz Trio www.espjazz.org.
The gallery offers off-street parking.
For more information contact Theresa Vitale at 315- 689-5037 or by e-mail to tvitale1@twcny.rr.com
Ed Levine - Watercolor
Ed Levine's twenty year love affair with Skaneateles Lake is evident in his artwork of the last few years. His paintings of the Lake and surrounding vistas are filled with emotional impact. Born in Albany, New York, Ed Levine received his art education at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Among the artists that he studied with was George Wexler, a well known painter in the Hudson River School tradition and Arnold Singer, a master printer and graphic artist. Ed now resides on the south end of Skaneateles Lake in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State.
Ed has been showing his work professionally for the past thirty years in some of the finest juried shows in New York State as well as other selected shows along the East Coast. Throughout the past ten years of his career Ed has painted still lifes using food as the general source of subject matter. Since retiring after 33 years of teaching and moving to Skaneateles Lake in June of 2005, Ed's attention has been captured by his new surroundings. The dominant features of Ed 's watercolors are shape, color, and transparent layers combined in an active composition. His paintings radiate with an emotional and physical directness created by their saturated color and bright light.
"When creating my artwork, I attempt to consider all the rules that I’ve learned and taught, and follow only those that I feel are appropriate for that day and that painting. I often remind myself to keep it simple, to be direct, not to add even a single brushstroke that is not necessary. I remind myself that I, not a gallery or client, have to be satisfied with this painting. The principles and elements of design, are second nature to me after painting for over thirty years and are a part of every painting. In the end, a painting is all about choices, what to do, and more importantly, what not to do. I take the privilege of making my paintings richer than life, more colorful, often with more striking compositions. I design my still lifes so that they are comprised of elements that are a comfort to me. My landscapes are of very specific places, but remind me of others that I’ve seen and experienced throughout my life. It is my desire that the viewer will also find them to be familiar and heartwarming."
Visit my web site at: www.edlevineartwork.com
Steve Fland - Wood Sculpture of Wildlife
Steven Fland is a self-taught sculptor specializing in life size birds in which the wildlife species and habitat all start from a block of wood or piece of metal.
"I reside in Moravia, a small community in the Eastern Finger Lakes region of Central New York State. Upon receiving a BS degree in Biology, from SUNY Potsdam, I taught middle school Life Science for 36 years. While doing ornithological graduate work at Cornell University, I had the unique opportunity to serve as a teaching assistant for the late Dr. Peter Paul Kellogg. Always interested in art, another teacher and I opened a wildlife art shop during the summer of 1976. It was there I saw this particular form of bird sculpture for the first time. Having a desire to try my hand in the art form, I completed my first carving in 1978 and entered my first competition in 1979, in novice class. In less than one year, I moved up and began competing in open/professional class and in1982, I won my first of five "Best-of-Show" awards at the (now defunct) U.S. National Decoy Show. At the first New York State Wildlife Art Competition, I received first, second and third place awards. (The following year the rules were changed allowing only one entry per artist in the competition.)
My early pieces were highly detailed floating sculptures ( "decorative decoys") that in competition are judged on the water. Aside from having to be accurate to the species, in anatomy, color and posture, they must float correctly in a natural, lifelike attitude. I still carve floating sculpture but I have expanded my art to include a category referred to as "interpretative", which does not float but focuses on a more stylized, loose impressionistic approach. Another genre is a highly detailed non-floating piece ( "full size decorative"), in which the bird is set in a habitat.
Specialty commissions have included the creation of four vertical sculptures carved out of Basswood logs. These sculptures were originally designed for an Adirondack split wood cabinet. The poles were meant to honor the Haudenosaunne (Iroquois) culture and feature renditions of their clans, false faces and beliefs. When the cabinet was moved to a different location, the poles were removed; their paint was intensified and they are now installed in an entryway to a conference center.
All of my work reflects a desire to capture "the character of the bird" and its habitat and behavior. One of my sculptures is a juvenile Coopers Hawk with a Mourning Dove clutched in its talons, expressing the feel of an efficient predator. Whether it is a regal Canvasback, an elegant Wood Duck, a well fed Alligator, Snapping Turtle going after a duckling, a juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk begging for food, or a pre-copulatory pair of Cinnamon Teal, all of these pieces evoke an important action in the life of the animal. A recent carving of an Eastern Bluebird on a Pussy Willow branch, established the time of year.
The process used in all of these pieces starts with very extensive research including, at times, the purchase of aviary specimens to study. This research also includes studying the habitat that would be appropriate to the bird, such as Aspen, as opposed to Maple leaves in the setting for the American Woodcock. After research, a pattern is then drawn and cut from a block of wood which is generally Tupelo, Basswood or Black Walnut. From these blocks, wood is removed with knives, chisels, grinders and, depending upon the size of the piece and the task, I use a chain saw all the way down to a small tool that uses dental bits and turns 400,000 rpm. After the piece is carved, it is then textured and "burned" with an instrument that puts a knife-like cut in the wood using heat. This preparation creates a lifelike reflective surface, with natural undulations of highlights and shadows, on the sculpture. After developing the surface of the piece, acrylic paint is applied using as many as twenty, thin, watery washes. Metal is sometimes used for structural needs or for habitat such as a fall Goldenrod made of brass with the dried leaves made from various types of paper. In all cases, except for the eyes, I create the entire carving. The sculptures are all life-size renderings of the species depicted. They have ranged in size from a Ruby-throated Hummingbird to the pair of Red-tailed Hawks (the tallest piece ever displayed at the World Championships of Wildfowl Carving) to a piece of floor sculpture, in Black Walnut, of a Hippopotamus emerging from the water with two Cattle Egrets looking for insects on its back.
Composition is of major importance because I want to force the viewer’s eye to flow through the sculpture and still be of interest when seen from all directions. When viewing my work, look at the bird with regard to its behavior and the overall design, while at the same time remembering it is sculpted from wood."
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Skaneateles ARTisans, will feature in June the work of DeeAnn and Robert vonHunke. Opening reception Friday, June 4, 6-9pm. DeeAnn and Robert vonHunke have been collaborating in the studio for decades, first as potters and more recently in jewelry design. DeeAnn and Robert make annual trips to Arizona and California to acquire rough semi precious stones from around the world, which the artists apply lapidary methods to laboriously make polished gems for DeeAnn's jewelry designs and creations. DeeAnn combines her hand crafted silver metal clays and bezel mounts to create contemporary wearable art. Robert also works in acrylic painting and digital photography, creating a record of his observations and interpretations of time and place in landscapes and close-ups from Skaneateles to China. With Live music and refreshments. Exhibit Runs through June 30, 2010
Dee Ann vonHunke
I have been a creative designer/craftsperson for over thirty years. I started out working in porcelain, sculpting and wheel throwing large graceful translucent forms. PMC silver eased the transition from pottery to jewelry. My work in silver and gemstone is divided between one of a kind personally inspired pieces, and work that is a custom created collaboration with a client/collector.
I personally and thoughtfully creatively craft nearly every aspect of each jewelry piece; often right from selecting the rough mined stone to doing the lapidary work prior to my visualizing the design and working the silver for the finished piece.
I use a variety of semi-precious materials collected from around the world and brought together using multi-step processes, forming thoughts and feelings; discovery and craft; story and art. I hope you find the same sense of discovery and fulfillment with my work that the art and craft has provided me.
Robert vonHunke
I work from life. I studied painting and drawing at the University of Michigan where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting. I also pursued interests in printmaking, ceramics, photography, and computer graphics. After receiving a Master of Science and Doctor of Education degrees from Syracuse University and teaching for 34 years I am recalibrating back to the studio where I work in acrylics and digital photography. My creativity is self -disciplined, guided largely by personal visual statements expressed permanently through the use of a variety of media in paint and print. My art provides a vehicle to summarize and document an experience, a visual journal. For example, the series of paintings I did as a response to lengthy travel in nearly all 50 States but especially to the beaches of North Carolina, the rocks and sky of Sedona, Arizona, the canals of Venice, Italy, and Suzhou, China. Diversions include trains and the prairies of North Dakota. My art poses a way for me to share an aspect of a story through what I saw and felt, and lived. In a sense they are autobiographical – a portrait without the person. I work from life.
When not painting or shooting images I work with my wife in her studio where she is a jewelry designer. There I cut cabochons – taking raw rough semi-precious gem stones and cutting and polishing them prior to their becoming wearable art forms.
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Skaneateles Artisans is featuring the work of Gretchen Hamlin and Bob Ripley at our First Friday Art Night, May 7th from 6 to 9 PM.
Please join us for our monthly celebration as we feature exciting new works by two of our members: watercolorist Bob Ripley and glass artist Gretchen Hamlin. Enjoy festive music provided by Alize of Ithaca. Welcome Spring with wine tastings by Anyela’s Winery of Skaneateles from 6 to 7 pm. Refreshments will be served.
Exhibit Runs through May 31, 2010
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Bob Ripley
Bob Ripley is a native of upstate New York, born and raised in Elmira. A Navy veteran, he is also an honors graduate of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University where he majored in Advertising Design. After graduation, he spent the next thirty-six years as an art director at three different upstate advertising agencies. His work has won numerous regional and national awards.
During his busy career, Bob never lost his life-long interest in drawing and painting, and continued to hone his skills during his free time. He was and still is inspired by the masters of the medium, especially Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth. Soon to be retired, Bob will be able to pursue his love of painting full-time in his home studio.
His artistic philosophy and motivation are both simplistic and genuine: “Wildlife and natural forms have served as inspiration for my artwork since I was a little boy painting watercolors on cardboard shirt boxes. I’ve always been drawn to water and the creatures that inhabit the earth’s lifeblood... ducks, loons and especially fish. Encounters with nature through my numerous outdoor hobbies provide a wide array of creative opportunities.
Typically, my paintings result from a combination of reference photography, field notes and observations. I’m constantly amazed by the colors, textures and compositions in the natural world. Hopefully, my finished works capture a “wild moment” in the beauty of planet earth and remind us of its fragile nature.”
Bob is an avid outdoorsman and spends many hours fly fishing, canoeing, hiking and cross-country skiing. The Adirondack Mountains and the American West are among his favorite haunts and often the setting for his compositions. He and his wife Cheryl live in the country outside of Skaneateles, where they share space with the local flora and fauna.
Gretchen Hamlin
Glass is a fascinating medium; very flowing, forgiving and mesmerizing to work with. The fact that a compact cylinder of glass can be shaped and stretched to great lengths to produce many feet of potential beads is a constant source of wonder to me. Glass overlays and inclusions afford endless possibilities, and I am always thrilled and sometimes surprised by the results in both the hot shop and later when the beads are combined to fashion my colorful jewelry. I select high-quality and somewhat unusual findings to add more variety to the finished product; sterling silver and gold-filled beads add extra sparkle to the glass, while anodized niobium enhances the whimsy of each piece.
First Friday Art Night - April 2nd from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring a Student Art Show. Three School Districts will be represented: Skaneateles, Marcellus and West Genesee. Join us for live music, punch and appetizers. The music for our April First Friday event will be provided by Fiddlestyx, a nine-piece ensemble made up of members of the Skaneateles High School orchestra, led by Karen Veverka. The group specializes in string versions of music by rock bands such as Led Zepplin and the Rolling Stones.
The students are currently raising money to finance their upcoming trip to Los Angeles, where they have been invited to compete in the Heritage Festival of Gold, during which they will get the opportunity to work with renowned guest conductors and perform in the prestigious Segerstrom Concert Hall.
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Back by popular demand Skaneateles Artisans is proud to be invited to participated at the CNY Blooms Show at On Center from March 3rd through March 7th. Our Gallery will be closed during this time. We will be celebrating Frist Friday March 5th at On Center. Our gallery will reopen for business on March 12th.
You are Invited:
Artisan’s Garden Art Garden by the Skaneateles Artisans will return for "The 2010 Show"! Featuring garden, flower, and nature paintings, photographs, jewelry, stained glass, pottery, wood sculpting, faux painting, glass blowing, dried and fresh flowers. All items will be for sale on the show floor and live demonstrations will take place in the garden.
Skaneateles Artisans, displaying fine art and fine craft at the CNY Blooms Show at the OnCenter, would like to acknowledge the creators of our garden display.
The display is being provided by the Skaneateles Towne Center located at 61 Fennell Street in Skaneateles. Their display will develop the feel of a French flower market with garden accessories such as: tables, chairs, benches, arbors and trellises that will be incorporated with their flowers to enhance the displayed art work. All items on display from the Town Square are for sale.
Skaneateles Ace Town Square
61 Fennell Street
Skaneateles, NY 13152
Phone: 315-685-5748
For more info visit web site
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First Friday- March 5th at On Center
After a long work week gather your friends and family to unwind at CNY Blooms from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Friday night. An eclectic band, Z-Bones will perform a variety of music. The Oncenter will have a cash bar available and many creative food options. Sit at linen draped tables and relax, stroll through the large landscaped gardens, watch the Skaneateles Artisans crate and discuss their art, and shop the many exhibit booths. Entrance to this event is the regular show ticket and coupons can be used. Free parking in the Oncenter garage. Food and beverage expenses are additional.
Current Exhibit" Runs through February 28, 2010
February First Friday Art Night from 6 - 9
Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring artists Sandra Philips/ painter and Linda Bishop-Surbeck/ jeweler. Refreshments will be served. Exhibit runs through February 28th.
Music by Harvyn Tarkmeel/ pianist.
Hors d'oeuvres will be provided by:
blue Danube Gourmet
33 Jordan Street
Skaneateles, New York 13152
Phone
(315) 685-3774
for more info visit their web site at : www.bluedanubegourmet.com
Sandra Philips
Sandra Philips is a decorative artist as well as a portrait artist who paints in acrylics and oils. Her passion for decorative art leads her to paint on multiple surfaces that are either functional or decorative. Combined with her love of the holiday seasons her work spans the spectrum from unique and detailed hand painted ornaments to refurbished sleds and toboggans. Sandra is known for her paintings on sleds, often taking commissions painting on treasured sleds from owners' youth.
Originally trained in oils Sandra has taken lessons from portrait artist, Karen Patton of Wichita Kansas. She has painted pet, home and people portraits including a full length life size painting of Dolph Schayes for the Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame.
Sandra has taken private art lessons since she was a young child and continues her training with multiple yearly seminars. She is a member of the National Society of Decorative Artists and a member of the North Syracuse Art Guild.
Visit Sandra's website
Linda Bishop-Surbeck
I have been greatly influenced in art by my parents. My father, who was a dairy farmer here in Skaneateles, was a great metal worker and welder. My mother was an oil painter who also created bisque dolls. After finding a small bead store in my town by accident in 1997, I became inspired to create my own jewelry. My next great discovery came at a bead store I was teaching at in 2005, one of the other classes they were offering was PMC (Precious Metal Clay). I now create my own pendants, and sometimes beads, to use in my creations. In 2006 I ventured to New Jersey to become certified in PMC. I am always increasing my skills and imagination!
My work will always be unique and I prefer not to make more than one of a particular piece. There will always be some subtle changes in color or design each time. However, I do make exceptions for special orders, such as wedding party jewelry. Please keep in mind all special orders require a 20% down payment.
I truly enjoy sharing my passion for beads and PMC by teaching at different locations in New York State. If you are ever interested in having me come to your location or group please contact me.
We will be closed on the up and coming January First Friday.
Skaneateles Artisans invites you to our next "First Friday Art Night Skaneateles" on Febryary 5th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM featuring artist Sandra Phillips/portrait/decorative painter and Linda Bishop Jeweler.
December First Friday Art Night
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First Fridays | Artist Demonstrations
Come join us to celebrate Skaneateles' own First Friday event. Celebrate the arts.
Upcoming exhibit on First Friday: First Friday November 6th, from 6:00 - 9:00
Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring artists Patricia Tucker, painting, Sharon Terry, jewelry and David Lisi, pottery. Refreshments will be served. Exhibit runs through November 30th.
Music by Steve Giacondo, guitarist.
Hors d'oeuvres will be provided by:
Hook & Cleaver Organic Meat & Fish Market
19 Fennell Street
Skaneateles, NY 13152
315-685-2088
E mail: hookandcleavercustomers@gmail.com
Patricia Tucker
I started painting about five years ago while going though a difficult period in my life. Prior to that time, I expressed my creativity by sewing, crocheting, gardening, woodworking, restoring old houses, through culinary endeavors, entertaining, and raising children. While painting, I found a combination of peace and passion, and I was pleased to receive encouragement and praise from family and friends. One friend in particular, an artist friend of mine, encouraged me to pursue this talent and newfound passion. Consequently, I began taking various art classes at a community college followed by doing some local art workshops. Now, whether I am painting with acrylics or oils, whether I am drawing with charcoal, crayons, pencils, or pastels, and whether the subject matter is a figure, a portrait, a landscape, or an abstract, the thread between all of my work is that I share a glimpse of myself – mind, heart, and soul. –
Sharon Terry
Several years ago I visited and revisited a local bookstore to thumb through ornament magazine. Once I decided to take the leap & actually purchase the publication I spent that afternoon reading the articles and admiring the beautiful photographs of the work of acclaimed jewelry artist. Immediately upon closing its pages I got up from my chair & was pulled by some force to the back of our grown up daughter’s closet. I discovered an old plastic sewing box. I spent hours that afternoon with the memory of my grandmother and over those hours began remembering that she had for a short time in her life experimented with making jewelry and these were her beads.
I took a class to learn to affix a clasp and the rest is history. Once my jewelry seemed to draw attention and others encouraged me with my creations, I began to sell my work and create custom pieces. I do not copy the work of others, although I learned from them. Each design comes out of my own head in the moment that I sit down to create. Gem stone beads are my passion although I do use glass and other materials as well. I guess the bottom line to all of this is the healing nature of the work itself; it brings meditative focus and rest to my mind and body.
David Lisi
David Lisi, a native central New Yorker has been making pottery for over 20 years. David started working with clay at age 16 as a student at Henninger High School and continued at SUNY Onondaga as a psycology major and an art minor. However, after graduation David continued to study ceramics at SUNY Onondaga under the renowned Professor Andy Schuster for three more years. David has been a member of the Syracuse Ceramic Guild for 10 years. Through the guild David continues to learn new techniques working with clay.
Current Exhibit" Runs through October 31, 2009
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Artist Opening – 11 Fennell St., Skaneateles. First Friday, October2, 2009, 6:00 – 9:00pm.Skaneateles Artisans on October 2, First Friday, will unveil art donated to a silent auction to support the St James Haiti Clean Water Project and Skaneateles Outreach. Music will be provided by Jazz muscians Ron France and Barry Blumenthal. The silent auction will run through out the month of October. Exhibit runs through 10/31. The gallery offers off-street parking and accepts major credit cards. Visit their website at www.skaneatelesartisans.com. For more information, call 315-685-8580.
Hors d'oeuvres will be provided by:
Hook & Cleaver Organic Meat & Fish Market
19 Fennell Street
Skaneateles, NY 13152
315-685-2088
E mail: hookandcleavercustomers@gmail.com
Music:
Ron France:
Was introduced to music by his father, a trumpeter who played his early years with Stan Kenton's band... His long time collaboration with Vocalist Ronnie Leigh and Keyboardist Larry Arlotta, led to two Grammy nominated CD's
Ron has been fortunate to work and/or record with such jazz luminaries as Doc Severinson, Jeff Tyzik, Alan Vizzuti, Nancy Kelly, Cabo Frio and many others.
Currently enjoying the Central New York Music scene and playing with these great upstate groups:
Eye Level with John Rohde, Mark Copani, Jim Johns and Andy Rudy, Ronnie Leigh with Karl Sterling and Marcus Curry Three For All with Karl Sterling and Barry Blumenthal The Great Rochester based band Prime Time Funk with Jimmy Richmond and Dave Cohen.
Hear Ron online: www.RonnieFrance.com
Ron France / www.CNYSignature.com / President
Direct: 315-849-4082 / Email: ron.france@cynsignature.com
Barry Blumenthal:
Began to play the piano at an early age, influenced by his mother, Flora, and introduced to jazz by his father Ted who continues to be one of his greatest influences to this day.
Barry has performed and/or record with many wonderful artists, including Tom “Bones” Malone, Danny D’Imperio, Bruce Johnstone, Jeff Jarvis, Bret Zvacek, Dennis Mackrel, Aretha Franklin, Gary Smulyan, Mark Copani, Nancy Kelly, the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, and is a featured soloist on the critically acclaimed CD, “The Adventures in Jazz Orchestra Celebrates Christmas,” available at cdbaby.com
Hear Barry online: http://www.myspace.com/threeforallband
Current Exhibit" Runs through September 30, 2009
Susan Hadzor
Susan Hadzor loves the medium of glass. She finds it stimulating to confront its rigid two dimensional nature in attempts to depict items from the natural world. She loves the myriad colors and textures, marveling at how each changes the light that passes through. Susan now designs her own pieces, sometimes with inspiration from nature or traditional motifs, utilizing the techniques of copper foil, lead or zinc came--or sometimes more than one technique in a single piece.
Susan welcomes custom commissions, enjoys projects such as providing custom glass for cabinet work, and repairing windows and pieces which have met with misfortune.
Robert vonHunke “Transported”
Jamesville, NY
I work from life. I studied painting and drawing at the University of Michigan where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting. I also pursued interests in
printmaking, ceramics, photography, and computer graphics. After receiving a Master of
Science and Doctor of Education degrees from Syracuse University and teaching for 34
years I am recalibrating back to the studio where I work in acrylics and digital
photography. My creativity is self -disciplined, guided largely by personal visual
statements expressed permanently through the use of a variety of media in paint and
print. My art provides a vehicle to summarize and document an experience, a visual
journal. For example, the series of paintings I did as a response to lengthy travel in
nearly all 50 States but especially to the beaches of North Carolina, the rocks and sky of
Sedona, Arizona, the canals of Venice, Italy, and Suzhou, China. Diversions include
trains and the prairies of North Dakota. My art poses a way for me to share an aspect of a
story through what I saw and felt, and lived. In a sense they are autobiographical – a
portrait without the person. I work from life.
When not painting or shooting images I work with my wife in her studio where
she is a jewelry designer. There I cut cabochons – taking raw rough semi-precious gem
stones and cutting and polishing them prior to their becoming wearable art forms.
Current Exhibit" Runs through August 31, 2009
With Live music by : Louis Nocilly's "Jazzitude"
Skaneateles Artisans is proud to welcome two prestigious artist from the Roycrofters At large Association. The works of Howard Lehning and Thomas kegler will be on display for the month of August.
HOWARD R. LEHNING
Howard Lehning attended Carnegie-Mellon University / architecture, and Rochester Institute of Technology / Photography and Design. Was engaged as a professional draftsman and designer for 20 years. Was employed as Senior Designer for the Kittinger Furniture Company in Buffalo, NY and for the Baker Furniture Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan. I have been involved with the Colonial Williamsburg Furniture Reproduction Program, and the Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island.
A woodworker and inveterate tinkerer all my life, in 1983 I started HEARTWOOD, a small woodworking shop in East Aurora, NY. Was accepted as a Roycroft Artisan in 1984.
Continued my shop commission work while otherwise gainfully employed.
In 1992 I reorganized as HR LEHNING FINE FURNITURE & TIMEPIECES and started full-time as furniture maker. I have been engaged for 17 years producing commission work as well as developing my own product line of furniture, clocks, and small wood items. Part of my business has been to design and build high-end kitchen installations, and several residential libraries. I have also produced furniture reproductions for Graycliff, the Darwin and Isabella Martin summer home in Derby, NY that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I have trained three apprentices, one of whom has started his own cabinet business. My current apprentice is also an Air Force Reservist.
I currently sit on the Board of Directors of the Roycrofters-at-Large Association, the parent Not-For-Profit organization that administers for the Roycroft Artisans. At present there are 60 Roycroft Artisans and Master Artisans. We produce a summer festival and winter craft shows each year, as well as an educational lecture series, scholarship program, and the renowned Roycroft Chamber Music Festival.
Thomas Kegler b. 1970
Thomas Kegler is an accomplished painter and art instructor from the Western New York area. His traditional oil paintings of landscapes, still life, and figures draw from the Masters' approach to the canvas. From the local familiar hills of Western New York and the Catskills to the majestic mountains of Alaska and Oregon, the act of painting is an opportunity to recall moving personal experiences. Revisiting the processes and techniques of the Old Masters in light of classical and contemporary subjects guides his expression of life's subtleties. Kegler has embraced and is enthused by the re-awakening and appreciation of "Traditional Realism" ("Classical Realism", "Contemporary Realism" ) in the art community. Thomas is active presenting to groups, critiquing and judging shows, and organizing various art related events in New York.
Current Exhibit" Runs through July 31, 2009
Ed Levine
Ed Levine's twenty year love affair with Skaneateles Lake is evident in his artwork of the last few years. His paintings of the Lake and surrounding vistas are filled with emotional impact. Born in Albany, New York, Ed Levine received his art education at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Among the artists that he studied with was George Wexler, a well known painter in the Hudson River School tradition and Arnold Singer, a master printer and graphic artist. Ed now resides on the south end of Skaneateles Lake in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State.
Ed has been showing his work professionally for the past thirty years in some of the finest juried shows in New York State as well as other selected shows along the East Coast. Throughout the past ten years of his career Ed has painted still lifes using food as the general source of subject matter. Since retiring after 33 years of teaching and moving to Skaneateles Lake in June of 2005, Ed's attention has been captured by his new surroundings. The dominant features of Ed 's watercolors are shape, color, and transparent layers combined in an active composition. His paintings radiate with an emotional and physical directness created by their saturated color and bright light.
"When creating my artwork, I attempt to consider all the rules that I’ve learned and taught, and follow only those that I feel are appropriate for that day and that painting. I often remind myself to keep it simple, to be direct, not to add even a single brushstroke that is not necessary. I remind myself that I, not a gallery or client, have to be satisfied with this painting. The principles and elements of design, are second nature to me after painting for over thirty years and are a part of every painting. In the end, a painting is all about choices, what to do, and more importantly, what not to do. I take the privilege of making my paintings richer than life, more colorful, often with more striking compositions. I design my still lifes so that they are comprised of elements that are a comfort to me. My landscapes are of very specific places, but remind me of others that I’ve seen and experienced throughout my life. It is my desire that the viewer will also find them to be familiar and heartwarming."
